Storage Solutions

Despite the benefits achieved from today’s advanced network storage infrastructures, organizations continue to struggle with expanding data growth, compliance issues, and storage expenditures that are exceeding IT budgets. As an independent storage architect, SmartData is able to design, integrate, and support a wide array of storage providers such as HP, EMC etc. SmartData uses a 4 point storage assessment – Analysis, Architecture Design, Integration, and Service/Support, to structure the correct project plan, ensure a smooth implementation, and knowledge transfer, as well as the proper service and support.

KEY BENEFITS

• Strategically align data storage needs with the proper architecture, system implementation, and enterprise requirements

• Reduce operational costs and increase information availability, recovery and storage capabilities and implement cost effective, scalable storage solutions with easy to use data recovery tools

• Our certified engineers are able to implement internal SAN or NAS devices using iSCSI or Fibre Channel solutions depending on the client’s needs

• A tiered approach – where older data is migrated to a lower tier – increases the capacity of production servers and results in a lower total cost of ownership

KEY STATISTICS
Industry analysts predict that external storage system growth will rise at a annual growth rate of 60% per year

According to market intelligence from IDC, 97 Billion email messages were generated in 2007.

According to market research firm The Radicati Group, the average corporate user required 16.4MB of storage for email in 2006. The firm estimates that by 2010 emails will require about 21.4MB of space daily for the average corporate user.

A 2007 study done by Strategic Research shows that the #1 problem IT leaders are spending money on to solve is complexity of the environment(42.3%), followed by backup(27.6%), disaster recovery(12.4%), and consolidation(9.1%).

The Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 places personal requirements on corporate executives to approve their firm’s financial statements and to have the ability to audit the firm’s records, including electronic communication. A systematic storage and email archive solution is critical in today’s business environment.